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Seanad: Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank the Minister of State and his staff for their very constructive engagement. I look forward to continuing that engagement, from a slight distance, as the Bill progresses through the Dáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There was a good question from Senator Pauline O'Reilly that did not really get an answer. Perhaps it cannot be answered or perhaps the committee could get a written answer in respect of what the safeguards are around the influences between advertising and editorial content and what the mechanisms are. The witness spoke about them being separate but it is clearly an area of interest. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: If something is going to cost €100 million, that will get covered as part of the story. How do we have the carbon impact covered as part of the story? My other question is about RTÉ's link with other international public service broadcasters because this is an international issue. Can that be strengthened?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: My question involved the move towards the measurable. For example, if a project cost €1 billion, one would talk about it costing €1 billion; similarly, weaving in the measurement of carbon impact, one would say the carbon impact was this or that when talking about projects that are not necessarily climate projects. It is about making it a standard piece of information attached...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Due to the climate justice issue, it should also involve developing countries, not just looking to where the money is for co-production but also where the story is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I want to follow up with Mr. Bromwell on the global network. The point I spoke about earlier was on links with other public service broadcasters, including in developing countries. Very often the international aspect only gets covered at EU Ministers' meetings or at the COP. However, on the ground in Europe or across the world where the impacts are, RTÉ has the potential, as a public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There is a great diversity of perspectives within rural Ireland of course as well. Some very large lobby groups can tend to be the go-to in that regard, when we know some of the strongest climate activists one can find are in rural Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is that question of the different cogs in the machine. We have focused a lot on self-regulation, which of course is the ASAI, but the key focus, and what we need to examine is the regulations. They are, of course, a harder and a stronger tool in that regard. We have discussed a ban on fossil fuel advertising and certain forms of automotive advertising and I am very sympathetic to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: My question is for the representatives of both Purpose Disruptors Ireland and the ASAI. When we seek to have new media codes, self-regulation should surely be ahead of what is required. If we raise the bar on all the hard regulation, do we then need the industry to be steps ahead so it moves almost beyond the law, with incentivisation beyond the legal requirements?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We have focused on the lifestyles but, at other sessions on communications, we heard about the focus on the individual as opposed to the focus on the collective.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Maybe I could get an answer on the other question. How do we move to a systemic change from the individual narrative?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Could the delegates respond later on the collective narrative by comparison with the individual narrative, if there is an opportunity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I do not need a response, I have my own questions now. That was just a suggestion. Another, which, if it cannot be answered, could be followed up in writing is around production. If the experts before the committee today are involved in content, production may not be their area of expertise. I would like to know about things like the Albert carbon calculator and what efforts there are in...

Seanad: Cuimhneachán ar Chothrom Céad Bliain an Chéad Suí de Seanad Éireann – 11 Nollaig 1922 - Commemoration of the Centenary of the First Sitting of Seanad Éireann – 11 December 1922 (12 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: A Chathaoirligh, a Thaoisigh agus a cháirde, from the social, cultural and ecological contribution of Members of the first Seanad, such as Jenny Wyse Power and Eileen Costello, through to the work of the many former Senators who join us today, the Seanad has shaped national policy through a thematic lens, often identifying possibilities and challenges beyond any specific geographic...

Seanad: Statements on COP27 (8 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Prior to discussing COP27, I echo the points made by Senator Chambers on the western rail corridor. The climate committee in our transport report was very clear that the form of cost-benefit analysis used to justify removing it did not reflect climate, the environment or all of the benefits that accrue.Especially given the world's limited supplies of lithium, we cannot think that we will...

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will be very brief because this issue around sunset clauses has arisen before. Members will be aware that we have brought proposals related to this to the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight, CPPO, to amend these Standing Orders. They are acting as an inappropriate constraint in the House. When any Minister comes to the House to propose legislation, they ask the...

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I understand that.

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have brought the point to the CPPO and-----